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Benton Pennsylvania Map

Explore Benton, Pennsylvania, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Benton, Pennsylvania

How to Use This Benton, Pennsylvania Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Benton, Pennsylvania. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Pennsylvania or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Benton.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Benton
State	Pennsylvania (PA)
County	Columbia County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	41.195691
Longitude	-76.384254
Population	823
Density	532.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	17518, 17814
Area Code	215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878
County Seat	Bloomsburg
School District	Benton Area School District

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About Benton, Pennsylvania

Benton is a locality in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a small community with a population of 823. The population density is 532.3 people per km². Benton is located at 41.1957°N, 76.3843°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Benton is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 17518, 17814.

Benton holds its ground where the earth yields to the steady, unceasing passage of Fishing Creek. It lies 12.5 miles northwest of Berwick, PA (from Berwick, PA: bearing 321°T), and is situated 13.7 miles north-northeast of Bloomsburg. This waterway carves a path through the landscape, defining the low-lying terrain as it snakes toward the nearby reaches of Davis Hollow. The air here carries a crisp, terrestrial weight, devoid of any salt, grounded instead in the scent of damp loam and the shadowed timber of the surrounding woods. On clear days, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains marks the horizon, a serrated line against the sky that anchors the perspective of the valley. Benton Park serves as the local center of stillness, a quiet expanse where the light at dusk settles in long, amber bars across the grass, grounding the physical character of the place in the slow, inevitable turning of the seasons.

Industry and daily life in Benton reflect a history built upon the land’s modest offerings and the resilience of those who worked the soil. While the regional memory holds echoes of the broader anthracite struggles of the northeast, the local economy remains tied to the rhythm of small-scale commerce and the modest, persistent needs of a rural population. Residents move with the quiet deliberation of people who understand the reach of the seasons, their lives shaped by the proximity of the wilderness and the occasional traveler moving toward the cooling spray of Kitchen Creek Falls or the quiet waters of Lake Pinecrest. There is a particular, unforced dignity in the way the local storefronts face the road, standing as functional, enduring markers of a life lived inland, far from the frantic pace of the coast, where the measure of a day is found in the deepening shadows of the valley and the persistent, low rush of the creek.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Benton Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 130° SE
Little Property Acquisition (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 197° S
Benton Rodeo and Recreation Grounds (Local Recreation) — 0.3 mi, 321° NW
State Game Land 013 (State Resource Management Area) — 6.4 mi, 354° N
State Game Land 055 (State Resource Management Area) — 6.8 mi, 164° S
Saw Mill (Historic Ruins) — 7.9 mi, 010° N
Tannery (Historic Ruins) — 8.0 mi, 010° N
Ricketts Glenn State Park (State Park) — 8.4 mi, 023° NE
Jakey Hollow Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.1 mi, 210° SW
Valley View Vista (Viewpoint) — 10.2 mi, 039° NE
Berwick Historic Society (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 141° SE
Truth and Virtue (Public Artwork) — 13.3 mi, 194° S
Gross Auditorium (Theatre) — 13.6 mi, 195° S
Endless Mountains War Memorial Museum (Museum) — 14.1 mi, 321° NW
Creveling Lakes (Monument) — 14.4 mi, 022° N
Bloomsburg Fair (Attraction) — 14.5 mi, 198° S
Bloomsburg Town Park Memorial (Monument) — 14.6 mi, 193° S
Eagles Mere Air Museum and Eagles Mere Auto Museum (Museum) — 17.1 mi, 333° NW
Picture Rocks Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 17.9 mi, 288° W
Trout Pond Park (Theme Park) — 18.8 mi, 275° W
Kettle Creek Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 19.9 mi, 318° NW
Turbotville Auto Museum (Museum) — 21.0 mi, 253° W
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 21.2 mi, 333° NW
Sky Slide (Attraction) — 22.6 mi, 196° S
Old Smokey (Attraction) — 22.7 mi, 196° S
S&G Carousel (Attraction) — 22.7 mi, 196° S
Catawissa Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 25.0 mi, 142° SE
Nescopeck State Park (State Park) — 25.2 mi, 110° E
McIntyre Wild Area (State Wilderness) — 35.1 mi, 313° NW
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 46.7 mi, 177° S · 110k acres

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